How-to guide
How to extract podcast audio from a video interview
Video interviews — Riverside, SquadCast, StreamYard, Zoom, recorded in person on a camera — are the most common source for modern podcast episodes. VideoSplit extracts the audio track as a clean 48 kHz WAV, which is exactly what you feed into your podcast edit.
If you recorded in Riverside or SquadCast, you probably have separate WAV tracks per speaker available directly — use those for the cleanest edit. VideoSplit is the fallback for when you only have a mixed video file.
Step-by-step
- Open VideoSplit.io. Any modern browser works.
- Drop the interview video onto the page. Drag and drop. Most two-person interview recordings come in around 1–2 GB for an hour of 1080p.
- Pick WAV. 48 kHz uncompressed audio is the correct input for podcast post-production. Do not ship straight to MP3 — leave compression to your final publish step.
- Download the WAV. Saves with the interview's filename.
- Edit in your DAW of choice. Descript, Reaper, Logic, Hindenburg — all import 48 kHz WAV directly with no conversion.
Tips for better results
- For a cleaner edit, pair VideoSplit's WAV output with a noise-reduction plugin (iZotope RX, Waves NS1) as your first edit step.
- If the interview included a loud room-tone passage at the start, keep it — you will use it for noise profiling later.
- Podcast platforms (Spotify, Apple) accept 128–256 kbps MP3 on publish, so the final compression step comes at the very end, not at extraction.
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